ASCII Galleries
The People’s Republic of Art
“Simplicity,
simplicity, simplicity!” Thoreau’s signature mantra still resonates.
In fact, 150 years after the fact, the exhortation still has the
ring of the revolutionary about it. (Although one has to wonder why
he said it three times, when saying it once would have been so much
simpler.) And who has taken that stripped-down philosophy
more to heart than that unsung molder and mirror of online reality,
the ASCII
artist? Space vehicles, cartoon monsters, B-grade
celebs—whatever the subject matter, the whimsical, raw, keystroke
results are always weirdly comforting. |
